LEMONHEADS, THE

It's A Shame About Ray (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

Model: FIRECD624X

SKU: 405939 Product ID: 292547

It's A Shame About Ray (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
  • It's A Shame About Ray (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

Format ‐ 2CD

Genre ‐ Alternative

Release Date ‐ 04/03/22

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Description

    “Ray sounds revelatory in its restlessness, mixing college pop with country flair and relocating Gus Van Sant's Portland atmosphere to New England.” Pitchfork ★★★★½
     
    Lemonheads’ seminal album ‘It’s A Shame About Ray’, lovingly reissued for it’s 30th Anniversary. The long overdue reissue includes a slew of extra material, including an unreleased ‘My Drug Buddy’ KCRW session track from 1992 featuring Juliana Hatfield, B-sides from singles ‘It’s A Shame About Ray’ and ‘Confetti’, a track from the ‘Mrs. Robinson/Being Round’ EP, alongside demos that will be released for the first time on vinyl. This reissue celebrates their prestigious fifth album, these deluxe bookback editions feature new liner notes and unseen photos.
    Described by music journalist and author Everett True as “A 30-minute insight into what it’s like to live hard and fast and loose and happy with like-minded buddies, fuelled by a shared love for similar bands and drugs and booze and freedom.”. ‘It's A Shame About Ray’ had a considerable impact back in those heady, carefree days of '92, the record perfectly captures Dando’s ability to effortlessly encapsulate teenage longing and lust over the course of a two-minute pop song.
    Singles such as 'My Drug Buddy' and the breezy perfect pop of the title track might stand out (plus the add-on of 'Mrs. Robinson' which later copies included), but the album's real strength lies in the tracks in-between; the truly fantastic 'Confetti' (written about Evan's parents' divorce), and the eye-wateringly casual acoustic cover of 'Frank Mills' (from the "hippie" musical Hair), a version that seems to resonate with every ounce of pathos and emotion felt for the lost 1960s generation. To hear Evan Dando sing lines like 'I love him/but it embarrasses me/To walk down the street with him/He lives in Brooklyn somewhere/And he wears his white crash helmet' is to truly appreciate how wonderful and tantalising pop music can be. Then, there's the rush of insurgency and brattishness on the wonderfully truncated 'Bit Part'; the topsy-turvy 'Ceiling Fan In My Spoon'... this was male teenage skinny-tie pop music on a level of brilliance with The Kinks, early Undertones, Wipers.

Details

    Primary Format - Music - CD

    Artist - LEMONHEADS, THE

    Label - Fire Records

    Music Genre - Alternative

    Music Genre Primary - Pop & Rock

Track Listing

CD

  1. Rockin' Stroll
  2. Confetti
  3. It's A Shame About Ray
  4. Rudderless
  5. My Drug Buddy
  6. The Turnpike Down
  7. Bit Part
  8. Alison's Starting To Happen
  9. Hannah & Gabi
  10. Kitchen
  11. Ceiling Fan In My Spoon
  12. Frank Mills
  13. Mrs Robinson
  14. Shakey Ground
  15. My Drug Buddy (KCRW Session, 1992)
  16. Knowing Me, Knowing You (Acoustic)
  17. Confetti (Acoustic)
  18. Alison's Starting To Happen (Acoustic)
  19. Divan
  20. It's A Shame About Ray (Demo)
  21. Rockin' Stroll (Demo)
  22. My Drug Buddy (Demo)
  23. Hannah & Gabi (Demo)
  24. Kitchen (Demo)
  25. Bit Part (Demo)
  26. Rudderless (Demo)
  27. Ceiling Fan In My Spoon (Demo)
  28. Confetti (Demo)

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